Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1477. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Harold II. 6 January-14 October 1066. AR Penny (1.29 gm). Warwick mint; Thurcil, moneyer. PAX type. +HAROLD REX ANGL•, crowned head left, with sceptre / +DVRCIL ON PEARPI, PAX across blank field. SCBI 2, 1213 (same dies); North 836; SCBC 1186. EF, superb deeply iridescent cabinet patina. Exceptional strike and state of preservation, highlighting the finest style portrait type of Harold II. (See color enlargement on plate 23.) ($5000)

From the William J. Conte Collection.